DANIEL MORRIS EDUCATION: Ph.D. English and American Literature, Brandeis University, 1992 M.A. English and American Literature, Brandeis University, 1986 M.A. Creative Writing, Boston University, 1985 B.A. English, Northwestern University, 1984 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: 2006-Present Professor of English, Purdue University 2005-2006 Professor of English and Associate Head, Purdue University 2003-2006 Associate Head, English, Purdue University (formerly Assistant Head) 1998-2003 Associate Professor of English, Purdue University 1994-1998 Assistant Professor of English, Purdue University 1992-1994 Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University TEACHING: COURSES AND SEMINARS TAUGHT AT PURDUE: Undergraduate: ENGL 231 Introduction to Literature ENGL 235 Introduction to Drama ENGL 237 Introduction to Poetry ENGL 241 Survey of British Literature from Romanticism to the Present ENGL 250 Great American Books ENGL 264 The Bible as Literature ENGL 267 World Literature: From 1700 A.D. to the Present ENGL 351 Survey of American Literature from 1865 to the Post WW II Period ENGL 371 Twentieth Century American Literature ENGL 377 Major Modern Poetry ENGL 379 The Short Story Graduate: ENGL 560 Major American Poetry ENGL 561 Modern British Poetry ENGL 583 Jewish-American Fiction ENGL 590 Directed Reading: The Poetry of John Ashbery ENGL 594 Contemporary Poetry ENGL 595 Contemporary American Poetry AMST 601 Introduction to American Studies ENGL 677 Topic: The Poet as Playwright ENGL 690 Modern and Contemporary World Literature MEMBER OF Ph.D./MA DISSERTATION COMMITTEES: Ph.D. Completed: Rebecca Bliss, “Dangerous Women: The Quest for Alternative Narratives as Revolution in Contemporary American Women’s Fiction” (5/98) Russ Brickey (chair). “American Poetry and the Sublime.” (10/09) (chair) Phil Douglas, “Self-Inscription in the Narratives of Richard Wright” (5/04) Willard Greenwood, “Environmentalism and Contemporary American Poetry” (5/02) (chair) Maia Hawthorne. “Eudora Welty and Folk Cultures” (2/10) Henry Hughes, “Re-Orienting Orientalism: China in Early American Writing” (2/02) Elham Hussein, “Finding a Voice: Allowing the Silence to Speak Across Cultures in Pinter, Kushner, Nafisi, and Seirstad” (4/06) Steve Merriam, “Interference and Impress: Twentieth-Century American Poetry and the Visual Arts” (5/89) (co-chair) Holly Mickelson, “Replacing Memory: Comics, Survivorship, and Narrative Rupture in Art Spiegelman’s Maus Project” (4/02) Aegyung Noh, “The Impossible ‘Yoke’: Community and the Trace of the Social System in Samuel Beckett” (6/04) Derek Royal, “More Than Jewish Mischief: Postmodern Ethnicity in the Later Fiction of Philip Roth,” (5/00) Murray Shugars, “A Child’s Guide to Revolution: Frank Stanford and the Poetics of Self” (5/00) Geoff Stacks. “Mapping and Contemporary Literature.” (10) (co-chair) Joe Walker, “Committing Fiction: Crime as Cultural Symptom in Contemporary American Literature and Film” (5/98) Monica Osborne, “Jewish American Literature, Film, and Painting” (08) (co-chair) Angela Vlaicu, “Re-mything as a Socio-Political Act in Lorde, Kingston, Naylor, Erdrich, and Oates” (6/02) Dissertations in Progress: Yoshiko Matsura, Chris Padgett, Chris Berry, Mary Ludwig, Yilin Liao, Su Peirui, Matt Kroll, Walter Moore, Phil Schaust. Member of M.A./M.F.A. Creative Writing Thesis Committees: Jon Barna, May, 1997 Mairead Byrne, August 1996 Brent Goodman, December 1995 Emily Koehn, May, 2000 Cody Lumpkin, 2006 Elizabeth Lyons, 2006 Josh Diamond, 2011-12 Corey Van Landingham, 2011-2012 PRELIMINARY EXAM COMMITTEES: American Literature (1865-1930), American Literature (1930-Present), Modern British Literature (1890-1945) RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP BOOKS IN PRINT: Not Born Digital: Poetics, Print Literacy New Media. Bloomsbury Academic Press. July, 2016. Hit Play. Original Poetry. Marsh Hawk Review. 2015. Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry from Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie. Bloomsbury Press. May 2013. After Weegee: Essays on Contemporary Jewish American Photography. Series on Jewish Art and Culture. Syracuse University Press. May 2011. Reading Texts, Reading Lives: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz. Rowman and Littlefield/The University of Delaware Press. Co- edited collection with Helen Maxson. April 2012. Secular Jewish Culture and Radical Poetics. Edited collection with Stephen Paul Miller. Contemporary Poetics series edited by Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazar. University of Alabama Press. Fall 2009. The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond. Edited collection with Ethan Goffman. Purdue University Press. 2008. The Poetry of Louise Glück: A Thematic Introduction. University of Missouri Press. 2006. 272 pages. Poetry’s Poet: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Allen Grossman. Edited Collection. Summer 2004. National Poetry Foundation Press. 278 pages. Bryce Passage. (Original Poetry). Marsh Hawk Press (A Juried Collaborative Press from New York City). Spring 2004. 48 pages. Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors Write on Modern Art. 2002. University of Massachusetts Press. 191 pages. The Writings of William Carlos Williams: Publicity for the Self. University of Missouri Press. 1995. 224 pages. If Not For the Courage. (Original Poetry) Marsh Hawk Press (A Juried Collaborative Press from New York City). 2010. In Press “Dutchman and Modernism.” Approaches to Teaching Baraka’s Dutchman. Modern Language Association Publications. 3,500 word essay has been accepted by volume editors. The essay has been approved by the MLA publications board to be part of the published book. REFEREED ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS: William Carlos Williams and the Visual Arts: A Hundred Years after the Armory Show. Co- edited with Paul Cappucci. Special Double Issue of the William Carlos Williams Review. Includes my introduction and essay “This is Just to Say This is the End of Art: Williams and the Aesthetic Attitude.” Fall 2016. “Gaps in the Machine: On Andrei Codrescu’s Unarchival Poetics.“ Talisman. Spring 2015. “Needing to Summon the Others”: Archival Research as Séance in Susan Howe’s Spontaneous Particulars.” William Carlos Williams Review. Fall 2015. “What Makes Poetry Happen: The Erotics of Literary Activism in an Age of Internet Virus.” Notre Dame Review. Spring 2015 “Allen Grossman’s Radical Simplicity.” Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics. Issue 44, August 2014. “What is an Archive in the Digital Era.” Notre Dame Review. Number 38, Summer/Fall 2014. 172-183. “Resisting Poetry and Resistant Poetry: Aesthetics and the Search for Meaning While Teaching Introduction to Poetry.” Something on Paper (online journal of Naropa Institute). Fall 2014. (In)decisive Moments: On Kenneth Goldsmith’s Seven American Deaths and Disasters. Talisman. Spring 2014. “Tech support says ‘Dead Don Walking’: Tradition, the Internet, and the Individual Talent in the Poetry of Daniel Y. Harris.” Notre Dame Review. January 2014. “Frank Bidart’s Voice and the Erasure of Ellen West’s Jewish Difference.” Studies in Jewish American Literature. 2013. “Go Home and Write a Page Tonight”: Subversive Irony and Resistant Reading in “Theme for English B.” Langston Hughes Review. 2013. “Active and Passive Citizenship in Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” and Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.” PLL: Papers on Language and Literature. 2012. “I’m Ram, not Robin: Aronofsky’s Agon With Scorsese in The Wrestler. Film and Literature Quarterly 2012. “When the Shooting’s Over Turn Out The Light: Post-Media Attention Deficit Disorder In Joe Sacco’s War’s End and The Fixer. Forum for World Literary Studies. 2011. “’Mending Wall’: The Case for the Humanities Classroom.” Tikkun. (Online) January 2011. “An Interview with Patrick Durgin.” Talisman. 2010 “An Interview with Vincent Leitch.” Symploke. 2010. Reprinted in Literary Criticism in the 21st Century: Theory Renaissance. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. “An Interview with Mark Halliday.” Third Coast. 2009. “An Interview with Jaap Van Der Bent.” Marsh Hawk Review. 2009. “The Erotics of Close Reading: Williams, Demuth, and ‘The Crimson Cyclamen.’ William Carlos Williams Review. 2007. “Sacred Space and Secular Concern in the Photography of Tyagan Miller.” Visual Communication Quarterly. 13.4. Winter, 2006. “A Great Figure of Troubled Borders: Williams, Demuth, Indiana and the Number 5,” Mantis. Fall, 2004. “Freedom and Restraint in Mending Wall.” Robert Frost Review. Summer 2000. “Strangers and Oneself: John Yau’s Writings on Contemporary Art.” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Fall 2000. "Figuring and Disfiguring in Joyce Carol Oates's On Boxing and George Bellows: American Artist." Mosaic. December, 1998. 127-142. "Responsible Viewing: Ekphrastic Dialogics in Charles Simic's Dime-Story Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell." PLL: Papers on Language & Literature. November, 1998. 337-357. "'The Word Gets Around': Leslie Marmon Silko's Theory of Narrative Survival in The Delicacy and Strength of Lace." Western American Literature. Spring, 1999. 48-67. "Necessary Wounds: Public History and Private Myth in Philip Guston's Late Work." Soundings. Spring/Summer 1996. 95-107. "My Shoes: Charles Simic's Self-Portraits." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Spring 1996. 109-127. “Without Valid Restraints: The Figure of Whitman in Williams’s ‘Old Doc Rivers’.” Journal of Popular Culture. Spring 1995. Volume 28. Number Four. 115-133. "Geez, Doc, What Does It Mean?: Reading Williams Reading Life." William Carlos Williams Review. Spring